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Dr. Lauder Brunton on Digestion & Secretion.— Handbook of the Phys. Lab. —

p. 534 constitution of Urine — (probably it is not the urea)

529 & 530 constitution of Milk — (probably casein acts)

p 435 Classification of Albuminous bodies. & sputum

443 Albuminoids mucin, gelatine & Chondrin

449 glycerin comes in class of fatty Fats

477 487} action of gastric. small changes gelatinous substances & so with very plant the liquid remained liquid on disc of leaf, — ie that which was not dissolve

[Insectivorous plants, p. 111: "Squares of 1/10 of an inch (2.54 mm.), just moistened with water, were placed on two leaves; and after two or three days nothing was left on them but some acid viscid fluid, which in this and other cases never showed any tendency to regelatinise; so that the secretion must act on the gelatine differently to what water does, and apparently in the same manner as gastric juice.*
* Dr. Lauder Brunton, 'Handbook for the Phys. Laboratory,' 1873, pp. 477, 487".]

484 Fibrin action of gastric juice on — not regular

489 Pepsin not destroyed by digestion. (N.B Frankland says very difficult to get pure of salt)

490 Test of Pepsin by white of egg

394 Muscle of frog rendered permanently tetanic at 40° C.

Syntonin I ought to try